Google is trying to discredit the Great Barrington Declaration, an online petition signed by more than 20,000 doctors and medical professionals calling for an end to the Covid19 lockdowns.
Here is an excellent thread by Twitter user @boriquagato detailing the search engine’s actions.
from the “make orwell fiction again” files:
google has memory holed the great barrington declaration
not only have they wiped it from the top results, they have salted it with false claims about “climate denial”
it’s pure, simple propaganda
here’s bing (who plays it straight) pic.twitter.com/kTdhH8zXia
— el gato malo (@boriquagato) October 10, 2020
simple, right? here’s the declaration, here’s the wiki page.
you can see the authors, kulldorf, gupta, bhattacharya’s names and know this this was written by medical professors at harvard, stanford, and oxford.
there’s no slant, not editorializing, it’s primary source info.
— el gato malo (@boriquagato) October 10, 2020
the google results for “great barrington declaration” are simply not search results at all.
it’s a propagandistic hit piece ducking the science, ignoring the credentials of the authors, failing to show the declaration, and spinning it as some kind of fringe cabal of “deniers.” pic.twitter.com/OBUwsNb8sp
— el gato malo (@boriquagato) October 10, 2020
know what a man fears by watching what he tries to silence.
these groups know they have lost the debate.
they know that the facts and the science are not on their side.
and now they want to win by lying.
what choice have they left themselves?
— el gato malo (@boriquagato) October 10, 2020
and oh how they are going to try to hide it.
at the risk of sounding tinfoil hatty: big tech has become an apparatus of totalitarian fascism.
this is what that looks like. you push a government line and “right-think” while politicizing all things.https://t.co/lH39KyehUo
— el gato malo (@boriquagato) October 10, 2020
and make no mistake, big business LOVES this.
it’s profitable and certain and protects your market position and entrenches oligopoly.
big business does not like free markets. it likes “less competition and a thumb on the scale.”
the LOVE fascism.
— el gato malo (@boriquagato) October 10, 2020
and this is the part we need to understand:
they thought they were the good guys. hitler, stalin, mussolini, all of them
they thought there were the way forward to a greater society, a more perfect nation, justice, & progress.
and the companies that helped them thought so too
— el gato malo (@boriquagato) October 10, 2020
they have convinced themselves that calling fascism “antifa” means they are the good guys
but make no mistake, this is an attempt to rule you and it’s showing its true colors now
they, like all despots, believe that they will be benign.
history is not kind to that presumption. pic.twitter.com/7VhtPky2gG
— el gato malo (@boriquagato) October 10, 2020
search and social media do not have to be like this.
the can be peer to peer, open source, and provide personal agency.
remember that you are not google’s customer, nor twitter’s.
you are their product.
they sell you to their customers.
did you not ask who pays the bills? pic.twitter.com/KawZ4099rs
— el gato malo (@boriquagato) October 10, 2020
tacking this on to the end because it’s a new development since this original thread.
google has kept the slant, but at least the dropped the full memory hole treatment.
perhaps we made a difference.https://t.co/53Tos0PWpF
— el gato malo (@boriquagato) October 10, 2020
The petition’s creators have removed the breakdown of signatures, but an archived page reveals that the petition had been signed by over 22,000 medical professionals worldwide by this past weekend.
The website says nearly 240,000 individuals – both medical professionals and lay persons – have signed the petition as of the time of this writing.
After public outcry, Google now appears to have “fixed” the search results of the petition.
You can read the petition in its entirety here.